ARM as a primary architecture

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 22 mars 2012 14:11, Przemek Klosowski a écrit :
> On 03/22/2012 02:31 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> That opinion is flat out ridiculous.  Or maybe it makes sense if you
>>> think consumer desktops are the be-all and end-all; but they are not.
>>
>> Consumer desktops and notebooks. The things we normally call "computers".
>> Those have always been and should remain our primary target.
>>
> Check out the numbers from The Economist:
> http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/20111008_SRM111.gif
>
> The number of desktops has been flat for last 7 years. The growth in the
> smartphone/tablet area dwarfs 'what we normally call computers'.

Apples and oranges. You could print the same stats a few years ago about cars
vs scooters/bicycles

Guess what all the Chinese/Indian bicycle riders started to buy as soon as
they had the means to…

All those numbers show is that the developing countries are actually
developing (surprise!), and that they transition from nothing to cheapest
solution possible. That does not mean they'll stick to this stage forever.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot